Food Hazards
in Animal Flesh and By-productsThese are some of the reasons why we are vegans

No Poultry

No Dairy or Eggs

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Study Finds One in Four Packages of Meat Contain
Drug-resistant Bacteria

[Ed. Note: Animals raised to be food are all eventually...well, killed.
It is NOT surprising that the overuse of antibiotics for "farmed animals" is
now dangerous to humans who eat them. The numbers of and virulent strains of
drug-resistant bacteria are increasing faster than the drug companies can
manufacture new concoctions. One more reason going vegan is good for LIFE!]

Meat isn’t only murder, but
it can also harm your family. Bringing contaminated meat into your home—and
you won't know until it’s too late—means you risk infecting your loved ones,
even if it is cooked through and through.

We are all so used to meat and egg recalls that it doesn’t surprise us
when it happens but what if I told you that 1 in 4 packages of meat contain
drug-resistant bacteria that do more than just take up residency in our
guts? That they also survive in our skin and other damp salty spots on our
bodies, where they live indefinitely and without the host showing illness?
Scary—but true.

Recent surveys [Spring 2011] conducted by the National Antimicrobial Resistance
Monitoring System (NARMS) show that retail meat and poultry are frequently
contaminated with multi drug-resistant bacteria such as Campylobacter (causes
abortion in animals and food poisoning in humans), Salmonella, and
Enterococcus species (a streptococcus that causes inflammation and blood
infection if introduced elsewhere from the intestine).

Sounds tasty, more of that, please!

The meat that was tested came from 26 retail grocery stores in 5 US
cities: Chicago, Washington DC, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, and Flagstaff.
Specimens included ground beef, ground turkey and turkey cutlets, chicken
breast and thighs, and ground pork and pork chops. I should also note that
these samples came from 80 unique brands.

The results? Gross. But in more detail, NARMS found that there was a
prevalence of multi drug-resistance to clinically important antibiotics,
with 96% of the samples containing Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) that
were resistant to at least one antimicrobial. S. aureus was prevalent in
turkey, followed by pork, chicken, then beef.

The lesson? Meat isn’t only murder, but it can also harm your family.
Bringing contaminated meat into your home—and you won't know until it’s too
late—means you risk infecting your loved ones, even if it is cooked through
and through.

No Beef-Lamb-Pork

No fish

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